DeVonta Smith wins 2020 Heisman Trophy
University of Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith is the 2020 season Heisman Trophy winner!
The Heisman Trust announced the winner following a virtual show on ESPN Tuesday night, and Smith becomes the third Alabama player to win the award, joining Derrick Henry (2015) and Mark Ingram (2009).
Smith became the third wide receiver to ever win the award, but he’s the first since Desmond Howard in 1991 to win it. Smith joins Howard and Tim Brown (1987) as the only wide receivers to win the trophy.
“The Slim Reaper,” as he’s appropriately nicknamed, has had a season for the ages. Smith finished with a college football-high 105 receptions for 1,641 yards, 1,912 all-purpose yards and 20 receiving touchdowns. Although Smith is quiet and unassuming, his game is anything but that. And the tape doesn’t lie, as he’s torched defenses who have been dedicated to stopping him all season long.
Smith, the SEC’s all-time leader in career touchdown receptions, beat out Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, Alabama quarterback and teammate Mac Jones and Florida quarterback Kyle Trask.
While quarterbacks and running backs historically have won the Heisman Trophy, Smith defies the odds in a crazy season shorted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Smith and his teammates will take on Ohio State Monday night in the national championship.
Well deserved!
If you feel like you as a player need to move on from the 2nd and 26 play, there are certainly worse ways to do it.
Roll Tide.
That’s awesome!
Thumbs up!!!!
Good, the game manager didn’t win the Heisman. Frankly I don’t think anyone from Alabama should have won the Heisman because Alabama is essentially an NFL team playing in the NCAA. With all their talent, you can’t really tell whether anyone in particular is exceptional.
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3/8″ to anybody but a DA.
Please tell me you are joking. Smitty literally WAS the most successful wife receiver this year. That is so dumb…
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Someone’s mad that Trash didn’t win it
He had no chance of winning it. Wrong color and no tattoos.
Your opinion, but intros day and age, completely uncalled for!
“in this”
Sure its not politically correct for a white player to win it, but Devonta Smith is a phenomenal player with great stats and talent. He deserves the Heisman and I hope he has a great career in the NFL and does Bama proud.
You should probably go ahead and delete your account
Didn’t Joe Burrow win last year, and Baker in 2017? Get your head out of your backside kid.
Why the heck would they give the Heisman to Trask other than your heavily, heavily biased, dude sucked when he didn’t have Pitts, they simply don’t give the heisman out for his bowl game, the game that you played last is the one that matters most, as recency bias suggests.
No chance because he wasn’t the best.
Smith definitely deserved the Heisman, but Chance-not-poore, you’re clueless. Trask threw for about 1700 yds and 13 TDs in 4 games without Pitts. That averages out to over 400 yds and 3+ TDs per game. He sucked without his top 4 weapons, but any QB would.
Lol wow, what an idiot. Yeah Trash didn’t have a shot because he didn’t deserve it.
Not a cool comment, no need for that.
As much as I too dislike Bama’ how about the kid won it because he had almost 2,000 yards on a dominate national championship contender.
Dude quit being salty
Should I use “Trash” like others here do? Would that appease you?
Maybe UF needs to hire a coach that is worth a crap and can recruit. Though I do remember you lamenting the fact that UF was without several of their receivers that quit the team to go pro.
Shut the fûck up retard.
Congratulations Smitty! Well deserved the Bama Nation is immensely proud of you. Roll Tide!
Congrats DeVonta from a rival fan. You certainly earned this award.
AU fans have certainly been classy about the Heisman. Thanks on behalf of Bama fans. He came from nothing to win the Heisman. I am very proud of him.
Congrats Smitty…you won this one like a bawse!!!
Congratulations.
Well how about that! They got it right, way to go 2nd and 26! Way to go…
I’m just shocked Trevor got runner up.. For real? Mac shoulda got that
Left coast snowflakes and people like Pawl Finebaum. Mac and Smitty split the rational demographic.
Left coast? Nah! Waiting for the MLB season to start in April . . . Dodgers vs. Padres; Giants beginning the rebuild, Mike Trout and those guys in red caps who just stand and watch him play.
Sorry, present company excluded.
No problem. Gotta have a sense of humor!
Well deserved. I would have voted Pitts 2nd. Both are equally dominant.
congratulations to Devonta and Bama Nation from a Tiger. I’m gutted we let him get away from the Boot. A fantastic player who deserves this award fully.
Yeah but you know what this kid came from and how far he had to o to get where he is. So proud of him.
That’s great to see. Devonta always seems to have the right attitude. No messing’ around, he just puts on his hardhat and goes to work every day.
They said every day after practice he would stay behind and catch at least 100 extra balls. He always seemed so dedicated and I’m so proud that he worked his way to get there.
Glad he wasnt jobbed by overrated Lawrence
Congrats to Smith! BUT …Lawrence 2nd !?!?!?! Are you kidding me????
Who cares about 2nd…there’s no runner up trophy, I can’t remember who was first loser last year, can you? I can’t even remember who was first loser in the SEC this year… (:
Lawrence > Trask/Mac??? Sorry hump, I know you have no dawg in this hunt but it’s BS.
Lawrence was well behind Mac and Kyle in EVERY QB stat. He had no place being in 2nd, or in the top 4 in my opinion.
Lawrence led Clemson was undefeated prior to the casting of the votes, their only loss was with him out which only confirmed how crucial he was to the team, that’s the mark of an MVP, he was as deserving as any of the other 2 (or 4 if you add in Najee and Pitts)…imho of course, I reserve the right to be wrong…
IF it was simply about stats Elijah Moore avg’d more yard per game than DeVonta, Jalen Darden avg’d more TDs pg…neither meant more to their team than Smith did to Bama…Trevor obviously meant more to his team’s success than Jones or Trask…Bama probably still would have won with Bryce at QB and UF lost 3 times prior to votes being cast…
Happy for Smith, definitely deserved it, he was incredible all year. Glad to see it didn’t just go to a QB by default.
Congrats!
He Totally deserved it!
Now let’s go win a National Championship!
Good job smitty.. Well deserved..
A well deserved win for a very humble and talented young man. Thanks to the posters from rival teams for the very gracious comments! At this time of year, our conference really shows why the SEC stands head and shoulders above all the others. Now if we can win on Monday, it will shut up all the doubters and prove that the SEC is still the king of college football!
Roll Tide! Also finally Auburn doesn’t have a stat in the record book that they beat us at. Fun Fact.
LOL I will give them one. Out of Bama’s 3 Heisman winners, none are from the state of Alabama. AU has 2. LOL
Good for him and well deserved. Great talent and seems like his priorities are in order.
Najee should have been #4 ahead of trask
What a idiot. If anyone didn’t belong it was Lawrence. Trask and Jones had much better passing stats than Lawrence. But then, like I said, you’re an idiot.
If he works hard he may become as big of an idiot as you are.
Congratulations DeVonta Smith. The place that you came from is a long way from the place that you are going.
This kid came from a hard working, very poor community. Amite Louisiana is a tough place to get out of. He worked hard, never expecting anything to be given to him, now he is on top of the world.
They picked the right guy. His work speaks for itself.
Enjoy that special recognition, buddy. You earned it.
The best players are the ones who accomplish more with less. That excludes all Alabama players, as their team is essentially an NFL team. Brett Favre comes to mind. Did you rubes know he never played with a single Hall of Famer on offense? Kyle Trask too. He had no running game and opposing defenses knew he was going to throw on practically every down. That’s what makes all the passing records he broke this season all the more amazing. DeVonta Smith was good of course, but defenses had to defend against Alabama’s superior offensive line and superior running game. Those weren’t factors when teams faced Trask.
So many tears… It’s over.. Trask didn’t win. Stop crying.
Thanks for failing to respond to my analysis. Jones didn’t win either, by the way. LOL.
Posting dumb$hit isn’t an “analysis”…
I don’t care that Jones didn’t win. You’re the one crying..
Smith is the most outstanding player in college football, hands down. There’s not much argument. I have no idea what you are trying to say.
You’re right that you have no argument, you just state a conclusion.
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Congratulations! Well earned, Much Deserved!
Congratulations, young man!
Back to back SEC trophy holders. First, Burrow in 2019 and now Smith. Let’s start a trend.
Well deserved! Although I hate the numbers 2 and 26 as much as I hate 28 and 3.
Congratulations, very well deserved
Congrats to smith and I think they made the right choice. The rest of the order of the top 5 is bs but they got the winner right
Jones and Trask below Lawrence is a joke. I feel bad for Trask, who could have won if not for two losses his team had.
3 losses before the vote, 4 in total. Not very MVP worthy…Pitts should have represented UF
Congratulations to Smith. He is a phenomenal player.
Congrats! You deserve it!
Well deserved. I feel Smith is probably one of the best yet underrated WR that Nana has ever had. I think he is better than Ridley and Julio Jones.
Nana supposed to be Bama. Dang phone gets me every time.
He was a 5 star recruit and number 1 or 2 receiver in the nation out of HS, I don’t think he was underrated at all.
Congrats Devonte.
Happy for the young man. That is a heck of an accomplishment.
Now, everyone make sure and not bring up that supposed Heisman curse. You know, the one where the Heisman winner’s team normally loses a bowl game. That Heisman curse. Anyways don’t mention it….. Heisman curse…
The years Ingram and Henry won the Heisman Bama won the NC…
Bring it up all you like..